Gas Distribution Access Rule GDAR Electronic Business Transactions EBT Standards

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Gas Distribution Access Rule (GDAR)Electronic
Business Transactions (EBT) Standards

• Kick-off Meeting
• June 9, 2005

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OEB Direction

• File draft standard form of Service Agreement by
  July 8/05
• File a proposed EBT Standards Appendix by
  September 6/05
• In each case, 30 days to comment
• Use retail electricity as a model (mirror)
• Subject to
• No conflict with GDAR
• Applicability to the natural gas market
• Enough detail to allow for competition and
  maximum choice of supplier

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OEB Staff Plan Overview

• Two main activities
• Service Agreements Alison Cazalet
• EBT Standards Barb Robertson
• Overall coordination Russ Houldin
• Service Agreements
• Draft released June 3
• Ad-hoc meetings to clarify comments
• EBT Standards
• Intensive Work group meetings
• Straw Man available for June 20

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GDAR TIMELINE
July 8
File SA
Meetings as necessary
SERVICE AGREEMENT(SA)
Draft SA June 3
Comment deadline June 10
Comment period
File Standards
Sept 6
EBT STANDARDS
meetings
meetings
meetings
Kickoff meeting June 9
Draft Standards text June 20
Final Draft Standards text ( Protocol) Aug 19
Draft Transport protocol July 1
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GDAR EBT Standards Logistics

• Participation
• Lead representatives
• specialists
• Group structure need for subgroups
• Transport protocol, ad-hoc
• Meetings schedule Straw Man
• Continuing need for Work Group
• Meetings conduct
• Focus on working Standards document
• Minutes, issues-list, etc. TBD

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GDAR EBT Standards Meetings Straw Man
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GDAR KICKOFF KEY POINTS

• Staff instructed to file SAs and EBT Standards
• Looking to the gas industry to file best possible
  documents
• Everyone will have to live with the results
• Looking to advice from electricity industry to
  leverage a system that works suitably modified
  for the natural gas industry
• Both types of expertise are essential
• GDAR is incomplete in places (e.g. billing)
• Electricity model to be the basis to fill in the
  gaps
• Respecting existing practices
• Need for a continuing role for the Work Group
• Implementation